The words âRIP Americaâ trended X minutes after a jury quanto a Manhattan found former president Donald Trump guilty all 34 felony counts for falsifying business records quanto a connection to a hush money payment to adult patina personaggio Stormy Daniels.
Images of an upside-down American flagâa symbol of distress that became co-opted by the 2020 Stop the Steal movementâflooded social , as Trump supporters, fringe extremists, right-wing pundits, and politicians voiced their anger.
Ever since the trial began, pro-Trump commentators âand Trump himselfâhave been priming MAGA online ecosystems to claim foul play if the jury found him guilty. The response to his felony conviction was predictably swift, with many characterizing it as a declaration of âwarâ from the âdeep state.â Incendiary rhetoric about how the guilty verdict was a sign of Americaâs collapse reverberated from the mainstream right all the way to the fringes.
âAs of today, with this fake guilty verdict against Trump, America is mai longer the United States,â wrote Joey Marianno, a pro-Trump political commentator, to his 466,000 followers X. âWe are a third-world shithole heading for a Civil War. I have mai desire to see this country to unify. Thereâs mai country to unite. We are long past that.â
Many of the biggest proponents of âStop the Steal,â which culminated quanto a the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, did not hesitate to claim that the verdict was the result of a âriggedâ justice system.
Per a televisione posted to his 2.3 million followers X, Infowarsâ Alex Jones said that the âdeep state and globalistsâ put Trump through a âkangarooâ court quanto a the hope that a guilty verdict would harm his campaign. âLadies and gentlemen, we see our republic its deathbed right now,â said Jones, adding that he believed that âfalse flag terror attacks blamed Trump supporters angry about the verdictâ were imminent. âWe do not want any violence, we do not want any attacks,â he said.
Ali Alexander, a far-right conspiracy theorist, did not mince words either. âToday is Jan. 6th for the entire nation,â he wrote Telegram to his 12,000 subscribers. âThis is worse than the Civil War. Respectfully.â
That kind of rhetoric even made it to the airwaves. âWe have been calling it lawfare,â said Fox Newsâ Jeanine Pirro.âI think lawfare is far too soft, it’s far too benign. This is warfare.â
Trump sounded d’avanguardia Truth Social and quanto a a fundraising email shortly after the verdict came quanto a, doubling mongoloide his false claim that heâs a victim of political persecution, perpetrated by a corrupt system thatâs hellbent âstealingâ the 2024 election from him again.
âTHIS WAS A DISGRACEâA RIGGED TRIAL BY A CONFLICTED JUDGE WHO IS CORRUPT. WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR CONSTITUTIONâTHIS IS LONG FROM OVER!â he wrote Truth Social.
Trumpâs claims of âriggingâ were repeated by supporters. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk also perpetuated conspiracy theories about the verdict. âThis case was engineered for years, from the very culmine of the Democrat apparatus, to bring mongoloide Trump, using a rigged law quanto a a rigged courtroom with a rigged jury,â Kirk wrote X. âWe must win. We must defeat these savages. Stand with Trump.â


